Intact But Less Accessible Phonetic Representations in Adults with Dyslexia

Good Foundations, Poor Access Dyslexia makes reading and spelling difficult. Boets et al. (p. 1251 ) analyzed whether for adult readers with dyslexia the internal references for word sounds are poorly constructed or whether accessing those references is abnormally difficult. Brain imaging during phonetic discrimination tasks suggested that the internal dictionary for word sounds was correct, but accessing the dictionary was more difficult than...